{"id":228064,"date":"2025-09-15T06:32:09","date_gmt":"2025-09-15T06:32:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/228064\/"},"modified":"2025-09-15T06:32:09","modified_gmt":"2025-09-15T06:32:09","slug":"ctv-news-anchor-beverly-thomson-dies-at-61-after-battle-with-cancer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/228064\/","title":{"rendered":"CTV News anchor Beverly Thomson dies at 61 after battle with cancer"},"content":{"rendered":"

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NDP Leader Jack Layton speaks to Beverly Thomson on Canada AM on April 19, 2011.Jacques Boissinot\/The Canadian Press<\/p>\n

Canadian journalist and longtime CTV News anchor Beverly Thomson has died.<\/p>\n

Thomson, who is best known for her high-profile interviews with politicians and celebrities, died on Sunday morning surrounded by her family after a long battle with cancer, CTV News reported. She was 61.<\/p>\n

Thomson joined CTV News Toronto as a reporter, where she most recently worked as a CTV News Channel anchor after working on-air for the network\u2019s morning show \u201cCanada AM.\u201d<\/p>\n

Her career spanned over 30 years and included coverage of the 2016 U.S. presidential election and featured interviews with Celine Dion, Shania Twain, Donald Trump and Canadian astronaut Chris Hadfield.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Last October, Thomson was awarded the lifetime achievement award by the Radio Television Digital News Association of Canada.<\/p>\n

When presented the award, then-RTDNA Canada president Lis Travers called Thomson \u201cone of Canada\u2019s most respected news personalities.\u201d<\/p>\n

Vice-president of News at Bell Media Richard Gray said Thomson was a \u201ctrusted voice and a valued teammate to all of us at CTV News\u201d in a statement on Sunday.<\/p>\n

\u201cBev\u2019s natural on-air style created an immediate connection with viewers. For decades, she also made a significant impact across the country with her vocal support and advocacy for cancer charities,\u201d Gray wrote.<\/p>\n

\u201cBev will be dearly missed by all of us at CTV News. We extend our deepest condolences to her family and loved ones.\u201d<\/p>\n

In a joint statement shared to social media, former \u201cCanada AM\u201d personalities Jeff Hutcheson, Marci Ien and Seamus O\u2019Regan \u2013 the latter two of whom served as ministers in Justin Trudeau\u2019s Liberal government \u2013 called Thomson a \u201cgood and kind and thoughtful friend\u201d who persevered through years of cancer treatment while on air.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cThe four of us spent three hours together every morning, live on air, five days a week, for years and years,\u201d the statement said, adding that Thomson \u201ccould scrap with politicians and give as good as she got.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cShe fought (cancer) so hard, chin up. On tough mornings back then we\u2019d always ask her what we could do, but we always knew the answer: get on with the job. So we did. We always carried each other.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Open this photo in gallery: NDP Leader Jack Layton speaks to Beverly Thomson on Canada AM on April…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":228065,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[2148,2138,671,104,2132,692,2147,2131,2143,2144,2140,2133,2130,79,407,746,2142,2137,2159,2134,2135,454,2139,1165,728,2149,108,2154,2155,50,2157,2152,2156,2150,2153,2136,85,2146,80,2145,2151,1458,158,1164,2141,1154,107,2158],"class_list":{"0":"post-228064","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-alberta","9":"tag-arts-news","10":"tag-bc","11":"tag-breaking-news","12":"tag-breaking-news-video","13":"tag-british-columbia","14":"tag-canada","15":"tag-canada-news","16":"tag-canada-sports","17":"tag-canada-sports-news","18":"tag-canada-trafficcanada-weather","19":"tag-canadian-breaking-news","20":"tag-canadian-news","21":"tag-economy","22":"tag-education","23":"tag-environment","24":"tag-federal-government","25":"tag-foreign-news","26":"tag-globe-and-mail","27":"tag-globe-and-mail-breaking-news","28":"tag-globe-and-mail-canada-news","29":"tag-government","30":"tag-life-news","31":"tag-lifestyle","32":"tag-local-news","33":"tag-manitoba","34":"tag-national-news","35":"tag-new-brunswick","36":"tag-newfoundland-and-labrador","37":"tag-news","38":"tag-northwest-territories","39":"tag-nova-scotia","40":"tag-nunavut","41":"tag-ontario","42":"tag-pei","43":"tag-photos","44":"tag-political-news","45":"tag-political-opinion","46":"tag-politics","47":"tag-politics-news","48":"tag-quebec","49":"tag-sports-news","50":"tag-technology","51":"tag-travel","52":"tag-trudeau","53":"tag-us-news","54":"tag-world-news","55":"tag-yukon"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":"Validation failed: Text character limit of 500 exceeded"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228064","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=228064"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228064\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/228065"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=228064"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=228064"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=228064"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}